Brand New A4 has Distorted Windshield

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#21

05-23-2007, 12:58 PM

DavidL A4

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RE: Brand New A4 has Distorted Windshield

My rearglass hasviewing distortions. Makes SUVs and Trucks behind melook like they are flat and jacked upabout 8 feet high. Kind of amusing

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05-23-2007, 01:12 PM

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RE: Brand New A4 has Distorted Windshield

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ORIGINAL: uscourt3000

The dealership says it's $383 for the windshield, plus $180 installation. My question now is... do these dealerships simply outsource this work? Maybe some local installer does the work for them, and they just get a cut for forwarding the work. Perhaps I'm better off getting it done at a local installer, or perhaps I should buy the windshield on mail order and then pay to have it installed???

One thing's for sure: I'd really like to take a look at the new windshield before they install it!

Sometimes becasuse we are swamped we have a company come out and do it.

#23

05-23-2007, 01:31 PM

uscourt3000

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RE: Brand New A4 has Distorted Windshield

This issue of windshields could be devastating to new car sales, if true. Certainly, I'd like to be sure the whole thing will be put to rest in the future (by Audi taking Quality Assurance seriously in this respect).I'd seriously like to consider the new S5 next year, which I'd pick up in Germany, but only if the windshield question isn't something I'd have to worry about.

Dang... we have an amateur telescope-making group in our Astronomy club, and they don't seem to have trouble creating ripple-free reflective mirrors as much as 16 inches across!

Who wants to bring a car home from Germany, and you already need a new windshield... perhaps you'd even need to get it fixed before leaving Germany!!! Ach! Du lieber!! [:@]